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SJ Watson to Judge our Galaxy Book Awards Competition

We are really pleased and excited to announced that the writer SJ Watson will be judging our Galaxy National Book Awards competition for a reading group to win 8 iPads.

Debut novelist and this year’s CWA New Blood Dagger winner, S J Watson, won this year’s Galaxy National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year with his chilling debut Before I Go To Sleep.

The competition celebrates all the great crime and thriller novels on this year’s Galaxy National Book Awards shortlist with titles by Ian Rankin, CJ Samson, Robert Harris, Val McDermid, Martina Cole and, of course, SJ Watson. To enter, your group will need to make a video review of a crime or thriller novel from the shortlist. It doesn’t have to be long – up to 1 minute – but we would like it to entertain us. The deadline for entries is 16 January 2012.

So if your reading group or book club have been reading books from the shortlist, get your video made and enter it for this fab competition. Here’s a taster of SJ Watson’s book:


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